in reply to tie on windows XP

I think at least DBM_File or GDBM_File should be available to you - at least, GDBM_File is available with my Strawberry Perl 5.16.

Alternatively, you can look whether DBM::Deep is available from PPM.

tie is a far more general mechanism that can be used to produce the mechanism that dbmopen used to produce, but its power is far larger than that.

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Re^2: tie on windows XP
by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Aug 18, 2013 at 03:15 UTC
    Thanks for the suggestions, but there are no DBM_File modules in the repository. Since my first post, I have found SDBM_File.pm in @INC. I do not know how it got there, but it works as advertised.
    Bill
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